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LETTER: Trump hypocritical about kneeling NFL’ers

Seeing the anger from fellow Americans when it comes to the NFL players kneeling during the national anthem is hypocritical. Under that same flag and First Amendment of the Constitution, then-businessman Donald J. Trump was allowed to go around the country and say that President Obama was illegitimate.

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LETTER: Trump hypocritical about kneeling NFL’ers

Published 2:29 p.m. ET Oct. 23, 2017

According to Donald Trump and many other conspiracy theorists and racists, Obama was born in Kenya and therefore was not eligible to be president. Trump was allowed to do this because of the freedoms we all enjoy in this country.(Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Seeing the anger from fellow Americans when it comes to the NFL players kneeling during the national anthem is hypocritical. Under that same flag and First Amendment of the Constitution, then-businessman Donald J. Trump was allowed to go around the country and say that President Obama was illegitimate. According to Trump and many other conspiracy theorists and racists, Obama was born in Kenya and therefore was not eligible to be president.

Trump was allowed to do this because of the freedoms we all enjoy in this country, just as I enjoy the freedom to send this letter to the Asbury Park Press. The hypocrisy is that a player who exercises his freedom of speech by taking a knee is vilified. Fellow Giants fans who are so angry at the players that they will not attend the games any longer should send their tickets to me. I promise not to embarrass them and will stand during the anthem. I will even sing it. But fair warning to those in the row in front of me: bring ear plugs; I am no Springsteen.